What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often called raths, though they are human buildings. This one in Ballyhoolahan Middle stood as a single-ramparted ring about thirty metres across on a south-facing slope. It belonged to a small group of five neighbouring enclosures, suggesting a compact settled landscape rather than a lonely outlier. The bank has largely levelled now, leaving only a low rise and a memory of shape in the pasture.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; low rise to E and S may mark line of levelled bank. According to local information, site of fort. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 492) as 'levelled, single-ramparted' fort (diam. c. 29yd) on H. O'Connor's land. One of a group of five ringforts (CO022-14703-; CO022-152---; CO022-153---; CO022-155---) in five adjoining fields. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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